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AWiB proudly presents the 2017 Women of Excellence (WOE) nominees. Every year as we celebrate outstanding Ethiopian Women who serve their communities and country tirelessly, this year, we bring you 5 magnificent women who have reached their summit. Their full story will be posted on October Focus and they will be celebrated on October 29, 2017 at a Gala Dinner held in Sheraton Addis. To get closer to these women and catch their fever, we urge you to join us at the AWIB 2017 WOE Gala Dinner.

Are you afraid of an unfriendly environment to visit Hospitals to get reproductive health service? Visit MICHU Clinics; Welcoming Environment, Quality and compassionate Care with almost no payment.

The Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) in collaboration with Federal Ministry of Health and ten partner University Hospitals are engaged on improving the quality of reproductive health(RH) services. Currently RH clinics have been established in 8 hospitals in response to the RH needs of the community. The clinics are named ‘MICHU’ which in Amharic means comfort, the word also acknowledges the high contribution of the University of Michigan in setting the RH system. The clinics are designed to give compassionate respectful RH care for women and couples. Prof. Senait Fisseha, the founder of CIRHT, with FMOH has taken a lead in enhancing the quality of medical school platform and the RH care service. Quality improvement is one of the initiatives of creating highly qualified health care providers.

YWCA Ethiopia, one of the most veteran and strong international associations in Ethiopia has re-organized itself and continued putting its strong contribution in supporting and empowering disadvantaged women of the country.

Metasebia Shewaye Yilma, a.k.a. Meti, has premiered her 2 television shows on LTV in April 2017; Let’s Go With Meti (???? ??? ??) and With Meti (??? ?? ). Meti’s travel and interview shows have started adorning the screens of LTV, the newest TV channel on NileSat (Frequency-11096 H, Symbol- 27500, FEC-5/6).

Let’s Go With Meti (???? ??? ??) is an experiential travel show in which Meti explores like a tourist and experiences like a local to promote the concept of conscious travelling. Let’s Go With Meti (???? ??? ??) is a well-researched informative and adventurous travel series that exposes hidden gems, celebrates heritages, creates excitement and takes viewers off the beaten tracks. In the episodes, Meti is seen hanging out with locals, trying daring activities, uncovering least known features and telling other sides of stories. In the first two months, Meti will promote Addis Ababa for the foodies, history lovers, art enthusiasts, adrenaline junkies and shopaholics. In the following two months, Meti will take her audience to the outskirts of Addis for one-day-trips to show various places and activities that can capture the interests of diverse travellers. Then gradually Let's Go With Meti (???? ??? ??) will take the audience farther into Ethiopia as well as cross borders.

“The test of an organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance”. ~Peter Drucker~

Any organization- whether it is a non-for-profit,a large multinational serving millions of people across continents or a small startup that employs less than a dozen people –is ultimately driven by the performance of its employees; if it is not only to survive but thrive in its endeavors. Organizational performance, however, is contingent upon a number of factors; among which employee engagement is one of the most important considerations.

AWiB congratulates its 2013 President and member, Billene Seyoum, for launching Earuyan Solutions.

In Geez, an ancient South Semitic language and precursor to Amharic, Earuyan means ‘equality’. Earuyan Solutions is a social impact driven company offering the following services for projects already promoting or wanting to integrate gender equality consciousness into their work:

In the February issue of AWiB Effect, we would like celebrate togetherness with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), that has been a solid AWiB partner since 2013, recommitting to the journey together in 2017. Established in 1942, CBE is a pioneering bank to introduce modern banking to Ethiopia. With more than 8.5 million account holders, CBE has since 2014 launched a special women’s account which entitle women to a higher interest rate than the convention interest rate.

As an avid supporter of AWiB’s mission and vision, we struck a brief conversation withSeifu Bogale, VP of Human Resources to understand how they are promoting gender equality.

AWiB expresses its appreciation to those dedicated members who have made it to 5 years mark. These individuals have seen AWiB through thick and thin and we express our appreciation for their support and trust in AWiB as an institution throughout the years.

Nahu Senay Girma, Founder and Director of AWiB spoke at WINConference, (the Women’s Leadership Summit), in partnership with Human Resource Working Partners (HURWORPS), Nigeria. Held in Abuja from November 22-24, Nahu was invited to share the story of AWiB: achievement, challenges, and ambitions.

Women’s International Networking (WIN) is an internationally acclaimed women networking conference that was founded by Kristin Engvig in 1998. WIN’s Visionary Spirit is “Modeling a Global, authentic and feminine way of running a business and the world”. WINConference is primarily held once a year in Europe but Asia has been the 2nd hotbed for this incredibly moving summit.

This conference was also the inaugural WINConference in Nigeria, first time on the Continent. Annual WINConference is well attended by 400-500 women and a few men from all over the world.

The Fashion week offers tremendous scope for the African countries designers to participate in regional and global integration. In Addis Fashion week 2016 which was held in Millennium hall on the 6th of October, more than 12 African Designers Participated. Among this twelve plus Designers Arkies leather was one of the participants.

Arkies leather, designer Semhal Guesh was chosen to accessorize the fashion show out of the leather accessories designers in Ethiopia overall. This was a break for Arkies leather in the terms of exposure and recognition to the glamorous design world as it is a young company in Ethiopia. This also has helped this new startup designer for her to see and learn and keep learning from the designers participating in the fashion show create contact, market linkage, largely see outside the norm and design for the future with the tools to cater to the African fashion and the rest of the world.